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Foil 3 InfoMall Focus Areas and Base Infrastructure

From Webserver General Description -- January 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Key Features of InfoMall
  • Use of High speed Networks
  • Growing Importance of Large Scale Databases for Multimedia Information and Decision Support
  • Use of Parallel Computer Servers
  • Virtual Corporation Implementation of a High Technology Organization
Infrastructure
  • NYNET as a prototype of the
    • GII -- Global Information Infrastructure and
    • A regional or community network (Upstate or Downstate Portion viewed separately)
  • Parallel and Other High Performance Computing Capabilities at NYNET nodes
    • Cornell,NPAC(Syracuse University),Rome Laboratory ...
    • FLAG -- Fiberlink Across the Globe -- the World Wide InfoMall initially linking Africa to Western World
    • NPAC is working with contacts in Africa to provide InfoMall Digital services to franchises in South Africa, Morocco, Ivory Coast etc.
  • Internal Networks such as VASTNET linking NPAC to Newhouse and other units of the University (Physics, Maxwell)

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